Games as a platform for city-scale collaboration
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If you're a city manager, how can you get more creative help to achieve your city's most urgent goals? How can you get massively more people involved in tackling your city's toughest challenges? An alternate reality game may be the solution -- and it may be easier to pull off than you think.
Transcript of Games as a platform for city-scale collaboration
In California, we spend 72 million hours a week playing computer and videogames.
What if YOU could tap into that human resource to solve your city’s most urgent problems?
“We must collaborate –or perish.”
- Wikinomics
Epic Wingames as a platform for city-scale collaboration
Jane McGonigal, PhDDirector of Games Research & Development
Institute for the Future
Game developer nominated for Nobel Peace Prize by 2020
“Games are the most elevated
form of investigation.”
How games help us collaborate
Satisfying work
Real hope of success
A strong social fabric
The chance to become a part of something bigger
What if we could harness some of those collaboration superpowers and optimism
to real-world knowledge building and problem
solving?
Will Wright + Jill Tarter
“I’m interested in the possibility that learning to be good at a game makes you good at life, makes you good at changing the world, and gives you skills that are going to allow you to reinvent your environment.”
“There’s real value in being pushed toward global awareness and looking long-term. That’s one of the things that
I find very useful about big games…. these are the timelines we need to be
looking at — the 10-, 50-, 100- year horizons. Because most of the really bad stuff that’s happening right now is the result of very short-term thinking.”
World Without Oil
“My friends, my family – they’ve all noticed the difference. This game has honestly changed my life.”
-- Melissa, WWO player
What we learned
We can motivate and coordinate real change
7000 forecasters from
90 countries,
on 6 continents,
In 13 languages
Accounting
Advertising
Aerospace & Airlines
Agriculture
Architecture
Armed Forces
Art & Design
Automotive
Babysitting
Banking
Bartending
Beverages
Biomedical Science
Biotech & BioengineeringBroadcastingBuilding & ConstructionCall CentersCarpentryCar ServicesCaregivingChemical EngineeringChurch & MinistryCitizen JournalismCivil EngineeringCleanersClothingCognitive ScienceCollections
Comic Book Industry
Communications& Media
Community Development
Computer Software/Hardware
Consulting
Consumer Electronics
Cosmetics/Cosmeceuticals
Cycling Service & Distribution
Defense
E-Commerce
Ecosystem Management
Education
EnergyEntertainmentEnvironmental MngmntEvent IndustryFashionFinanceFoodForensic PsychologyForestryGamingGardeningGeneticsGeo-InformationGeology & GeotechnologyGovernmentHealth Care
Home RemodelingHotelsHousingHuman RightsHuman ResourcesHuman ServicesImmigrationIndustrial AutomationInsuranceInternational RelationsInternetJournalismLabor activismLandscape ArchitectureLaw Enforcement
Law & Legal ServicesLibraries & Library ScienceLumberManagementManufacturingMarine ResearchMarketingMaterials ScienceMediaMedicalMental HealthMerchandisingMiningMobile TelephonyMonasteryMuseums
Nano-biotechnology
Nonprofit
Nursing
Oil Industry
Package Delivery
Parenthood
Philanthropy
Photography
Plumbing
Psychology
Public Policy
Publishing
Real Estate
RecruitmentRestaurantRetailRoboticsSalesSocial ServicesSpecialty CoffeeSteel IndustryStorytellingSstainabilityTelecommunicationsTourismTransporation& LogisticsUrban PlanningWater ManagementWriting
> 1000 stories about the future> 500 discussion forum topics> 500 collaborative superstructures
“This is by far my favorite vision of the future, because it’s the
first one I can actually imagine myself doing something
important in.”
– Andrew F.
What we learned
We can provoke urgent optimism
Now please arrange and reseat yourselves accordingly – in less than
60 seconds.
“We never saw this in our students before: a new mindset of Africans
being the solution providers as opposed to the solution seekers.”
- Thirumeni Thiru , EVOKE outreach
What we’re learning
We can change who plays
Get help making a game:
• Colleges and universities
• Libraries
• Museums
• IGDA chapters
Use free online platforms
• Ning for social networking
• Twitter for updates
• Wordpress for blogs
• Wikia for wikis
• Facebook for promotion
Tap into my network!
Email me at [email protected]
if you want to offer an “alternate reality game” internship
